Burning gas crater in Karakum Desert has been one of country’s main tourist attractions
Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov has ordered his government to find a way of extinguishing an apocalyptic -looking gas crater that has been burning in the Karakum desert for the past 50 years.
The “feature” located near the village of Darvaza, some 270km from Turkmenistan’s capital of Ashgabat